Amazing Animal Facts
 

	Sharks are immune to cancer.
	Elephants are the only animal that can't jump
	A house fly lives only 14 days
	A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail touches the ground
	A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
	Alligators can live for more than 100 years
	A rat can live without water longer than a camel can.
	A giraffe's tongue is about 21 inches long
	A shark can grow  a new set of teeth in a week.
	An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
	A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth
	A snail can sleep for 3 years
	A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
	Starfish don't have brains
	A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
	A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
	A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
	An adult blue whale's heart beats about 6 times a minute.
	A cockroach can go nine days without eating.
	A horse has 18 more bones than a human.
	Alligators cannot move backwards.
	All polar bears are left-handed.
	Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
	An ostrich egg can make approx. eleven and a half omelets.
	A blue whale is the loudest animal.
	More people each year are killed from bees than from snakes.
	A blue whale's tongue is so large that 50 people could stand on it.
	It is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years.
	An elephant can smell water three miles away.
	Turtles can breathe through their butts.
	Tiger sharks can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth.
	An ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
	It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.